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HELEN VIDOVICH

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Canta, Canta (arr. H. Vidovich for flute, cello and piano)

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JUDITH WEIR

Several Concertos

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I. Concerto for Violoncello

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II. Concerto for Pianoforte

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III. Concerto for Piccolo

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GEORGIA RODGERS

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York Minster

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HILARY TANN

In the Theatre of Air

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I. Herons

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II. Goldfinches

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III. Thrushes

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IV. Wild Geese

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V. Hawk

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VI. White Owl

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VII. Starlings

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LAURA BOWLER

Salutem

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I. Stone Age

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II. Bronze Age

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III. The Middle Ages

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IV. Industrial Revolution

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V. Modern Age

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AMY BEACH

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Pastorale, Op. 90

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Caprice, The Water Sprites

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Solo: Marsyas Trio Ensemble

Chamber: Marsyas Trio

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Notes

This album presents trio works by women composers of multiple generations; five of them living British composers, and one notable American. Programmed by the Marsyas Trio, the release marks the 100th anniversary of (some) women getting the vote in the UK, and celebrates the diversity of compositional style, the wealth of talent, and accomplishments of living British women composers today.

Heather Roche writes in the booklet liner notes: It is extraordinary to compare the life of Amy Beach, the earliest composer to be featured on this release, and presented on this album as an American ‘bonus track’ accompanying the otherwise British line up, with her modern-day equivalents. She was, early in life, recognised as one of the finest pianists in the United States, and performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at a time when she could neither vote, nor attend Harvard. However, following her marriage in 1885 she was restricted to two performances a year, an order she obeyed until the death of her husband in 1910, when she resumed touring. As women composers and performers in the West, we no longer have to fight to be able to do the things we want to do in the ways that Beach did. But we still fight for those things to be recognised on equal terms: we want to be paid equally, we want to be able to choose to have families without sacrificing our creativity and careers, and we want to see the work of women appear on every concert programme. Women composers are still underrepresented, largely ignored by orchestral programmers, often discouraged from engaging with technology and regularly reminded that their ambition is seen as ugly and ‘unfeminine’.

The album includes five premiere recordings: Judith Weir's Several Concertos (1980), Thea Musgrave's Canta, Canta!, and recently commissioned works for the trio by Hilary Tann and the two youngest composers on this album: Georgia Rodgers (b1985) and Laura Bowler (b1986).

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Reviews

"... The performances throughout are excellent and involving, NMC's recording is a little close but naturally clear and the whole is completmented by a fine booklet note from the clarinettist Heather Roche."

Guy Rickards – Gramophone magazine – December 2018

Performance **** Recording ****

Martin Cotton – BBC Music magazine – Christmas Issue 2018

"This feminist study marks the centenary of women’s partial enfranchisement with six items for the piano-flute-cello combination, reaching back to Amy Beach’s Two Pieces (1921), whose euphony sounds strange (but rich) coming after the “special effects” of Laura Bowler’s Salutem (2014). The opener, Musgrave’s Canta, Canta!, beguiles with its hint of Beethoven’s Für Elise; Judith Weir’s Several Concertos are witty condensations; and Hilary Tann’s title piece deftly evokes not birdsong but bird movement."

Paul Driver - The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) - 28 October 2018

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